Word: limes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piper's latest subjects are conventional enough: fountains and flowers, church courtyards, an island hotel, a village pump, a lime kiln. What made the paintings unmistakably Pipers were the colors and compositions. There were great swatches of bright yellow and bone white against russet and black, planes of dark shadows with fiery pinwheels of yellow, white and red. And the scenes had an air of amiable ruin: old fonts and arches decked in new flowers. In no time most of the 31 pictures were sold or spoken...
...swallow.) Bitter almonds had a legendary reputation in the Middle Ages, but Sir Thomas (Religio Medici) Browne, checking up in the 17;th century, sadly reported: "That antidote against ebriety . . . hath commonly failed." Later came raw eels, thoughtfully suffocated in wine. Present-day self-treatments include yeast, yoghurt, lime juice, vitamin B1, cabbage water or diminishing doses of alcohol...
Great Altar. Behind the wall was a mass of rubble cemented tightly together with lime carried down by percolating rainwater. Behind this was a corridor, at the end of which was a massive stone slab. The workmen pried at its edges, and poked a hole into empty space. Ruz pointed a flashlight into the ancient blackness and saw glistening white stalactites hanging in curtains from the roof. Beyond was a great stone altar covered with the tortured shapes of Mayan hieroglyphs...
...varnish to prove his case. Along the coast of Southern California are many kitchen middens, where ancient Californians tossed refuse from their shore dinners. Middens containing the handiwork of recent Indians are full of well-preserved shells. In middens containing fine stone blades (probably from the Folsom period), the lime of the shells is partly leached away. Middens that have lost all their lime have stone artifacts much cruder than the Folsom type. There are even older middens with only rough stone flakes and grinding slabs. These sometimes have two or three layers of clay that were probably formed...
...They uncovered the foundations of a great hall where initiation rites and orgies were once celebrated. They found the bones of sacrificed sheep, and the pits to receive their blood. So far as possible, they put the place in order, though much of the marble had been burned to lime, centuries ago, to make mortar for early Christian churches...